My wife and I annually host Thanksgiving dinner for extended family and friends.  It’s a big affair and since we live in a fairly remote, albeit stunningly beautiful, part of northern Michigan,…

Many assume that trans-phobia, homophobia, and racism are exclusive to certain age groups and absent in other age groups.  This week I considered the controversial term “Trap” used in the art of…

Sing a Song of Politics I was testing my memory, trying to remember things that I learned way back when I was a small kid, and I realised that my most intense memories are of or related to poems and…

The 24.2-day semi-periodicity of KIC 8462852 was first noted in Boyajian et al. (2015) and subsequently generated some interest. ETI enthusiasts apparently interpret it as evidence of artificial…

Recently, in the New Statesman, under the headline David Attenborough: Brexiteers “probably don’t understand” facts, we read: Brexiteers like Michael Gove who dismissed expert warnings “probably don…

The Theory of Everything may be a mathematically simple model which is rich in implications and more difficult in concepts than calculations.  The model I have just published as a candidate…

#MeToo is a movement started by Alyssa Milano which is raising awareness of sexual harassment... but I stumbled on an unfortunate bit of collateral PR damage for an app named MeeToo.  This is…

A vulnerability in the common WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol means practically every device that connects to a router (which is just about all of them) can be exploited to reveal access to credit card…

The WTF paper, Boyajian et al. (2015), made an observation about a peculiar pattern of semi-periodicity in the light curve of KIC 8462852: There is another possible periodicity that is worth…

Clamps are miniature equivalents to the gravitational shock fronts caused by colliding black holes that currently reach the press because very sensitive measuring equipment such as LIGO can detect…

Until recently, we hadn't observed brightening of Boyajian's Star (KIC 8462852) over time. There were documented instances of fading over time, some more convincing than others. It was as though the…

Abstract Physical reality must be simple. This reasoning is the general idea behind Occam’s razor. However, it is also a general physical principle. Foundation The foundation of physical reality has…

Abstract Two and a half centuries ago, scientist discovered solutions of the wave equation that represent dark quanta. These quanta configure all other objects that exist in the universe. Dark quanta…

The Voynich Wikiwars - Episode 2 This is a follow-on to my previous article about an opinion piece in the Times Literary Supplement which news media at first accepted uncritically as fact. It may…

Gibbs, Voynich, Wikiwars and the Times Illiteracy Supplement Declaration of interest: I have been an independent researcher of the Voynich Manuscript since it was made available on the web by the…

Hurricane Information Updates A site which has been providing potentially life-saving updates about the hurricanes, Neven Curlin's Arctic Sea Ice Forum appears to have been hacked.  If so, it is…

Patterns of Latin in the Voynich Manuscript The Voynich manuscript, more properly identified as Beinecke MS 408, has been a puzzle to many researchers for a few hundred years.  The first…

Arthur Eddington and others tried numerous times to test Einstein's general theory of relativity by photographing the stars which appear in the sky next to the eclipsed sun.  Einstein's theory…

Tragic Elevator Accident in Seville A woman has died in a tragic accident shortly after giving birth by caesarean section.  It is unfortunate that, due to a new Spanish Law which requires media…

The Great American Eclipse of 2017 as seen from around Makanda IL, very close to the center-line of the eclipse,  and in the region of maximum duration of totality.  From here I will live…